One of These Things is Not Like the Other

October 6, 2011

Tags: Baghdad, iraq, Perkins, Violence
Posted in: Iraq

Defense.gov news tells us:

American forces’ efforts in Iraq “have given the people of Iraq a huge gift” through the opportunity to enjoy the benefits of a democratic society, a senior U.S. commander said today.

“We have given them freedom and liberty that they’ve never known, and we have given them the potential to have a democracy in this part of the world … where it would be a unique institution,” Army Maj. Gen. David G. Perkins, commander of U.S. Division-North and the U.S. Army’s 4th Infantry Division, told Pentagon reporters.

Aswat al-Iraq, which was or maybe still is, partly funded by the US and thus not the most radical of reporters, has the following stories on its web site:

Press Freedoms Observatory condemns detention of TV Channel’s reporter
9/29/2011 6:55 PM

URGENT: Three killed, 79 injured in Kirkuk explosion
9/29/2011 6:34 PM

12 persons injured in Kirkuk booby-trapped car blast
9/29/2011 12:22 PM

Policeman killed, officer injured, in Baghdad attack
9/29/2011 11:30 AM

Iraqi officer, his bodyguard killed, 3 soldiers injured in Kirkuk attack
9/29/2011 9:38 AM

URGENT / Diala’s al-Sahwa Council leader detained on terrorism charge
9/28/2011 5:19 PM

Two armed men killed while planting an explosive charge in Kirkuk
9/28/2011 12:15 PM

Iraqi Parliament delegation in Kirkuk on fact-finding mission after stepping up of assassinations
9/28/2011 12:13 PM

Five civilians killed, 7 injured in Anbar attack
9/28/2011 12:10 PM

Iraqi civilian killed, officer injured in Baghdad attack
9/28/2011 9:50 AM

Five injured in 2 explosive charges blast in west Baghdad
9/28/2011 9:24 AM

8 Civilians injured in Baghdad booby-trapped car blast
9/28/2011 9:04 AM

Conference on land-mines and war victims held in Arbil
9/27/2011 6:17 PM

15 civilians injured in bomb attacks in central Mosul
9/27/2011 5:48 PM

Civilian killed by unknown gunmen in west Baghdad
9/27/2011 5:45 PM

Turkish warplanes resume bombardmen​t of Kurdistan’​s border areas
9/27/2011 5:02 PM

Turkomen Front charges Parliament with security deterioration in Kirkuk
9/27/2011 11:50 AM

Mosque Imam escapes assassination, his companion killed in Diwaniya
9/27/2011 11:12 AM

High-ranking Iraqi Army officer assassinated in Baghdad
9/27/2011 10:39 AM

URGENT: Kurdish Peshmerga man killed in clash with Mosul village inhabitants
9/27/2011 9:36 AM

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